Improvement in ironing-tables



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N0. 142,645. jzq g Patented September9,18 73.

UNITED STATES ANDREAS J. PALMBERG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lNolRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,645, dated September 9, 1873; application filed J une 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREAS J OHANSSON PALMBERG, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing- Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled "inthe art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ironing-tables, constructed in such a manner as to be taken apart for transportation, or otherwise, so as to be-packed in as small com pass as possible. Two portable arms can be attached to a pair of beams running under the board and metallic supports, for the purpose of ironing sleeves and smaller articles. The said arms project above the ordinary ironing-board, and, therefore, when they are used, the operator would have to raise his arm and iron inconvenient for comfort, for which reason I lower the feet of the board by using movable feet resting on casters, that may be swung around hinges, whereby the board is lowered about the same distance as the sleeve-boards project above the ordinary transportation.

On the drawings, Figure l represents a ground plan. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation. Fig. 3 represents an end view seen from A on Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents alongitudinal section on line A B, shown on Fig. l. Figs. 5 and 6 represent details of the feet with their movable casters; and Fig. 7 represents an enlarged end view of the slotted plate, by which the crossbar is attached to the supports for the board.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

a represents the board, with its hinged extensions b, as usual. To the under side of the board a are attached the metallic supports 7 c c, as shown. Between the supports 0 c is attached the cross-bar d by means of the projecting lugs e c e c projecting through holes made for that purpose in the supports 0 c, and the slotted plates f f having slotholes 9 g, made in such a manner as to allow the T-headed lugs e e to be inserted therein Figs. 2 and 3, and are held, furthermore, in

position by being inserted through suitable guide-pieces 'ii attached under the board a.

Over the rods h h is first slipped a metallic rest, it; afterward the piece 1, tapped for the reception of the screw on, that is provided with the hand-wheel n, that serves also as a rest for the heated flat-iron during the operation. A rest, 0, very similar to the one It, heretofore described, is at last slipped over the ends of the bars h h. The upper ends of the rests k and o are perforated with suitable holes, through which the end of the sleeveboard p is inserted. The end of the sleeveboard 19 has a slot, q, Fig. 1, for the purpose of allowing the end of the board 19 to be put in its proper place without interfering with the set-screwm. 0n the top of the end of the sleeve-board p rests another smaller sleeveboard, 1", placed at right angles to the larger board 12. The smaller sleeve-board 1' is also provided with a slotted opening, s, so as to allow of the board 4 being put in its proper place without interfering with the screw m. A small clamp, t, resting in the upper parts of the rests kc, bridges over the rear end of the sleeve-board r, by which and the screw m it is held firmly in place.

As will be seen from the above, the dili'erout parts of the ironing-board can easily be detached from each other, and the whole in closed in a very small case for transporta tion.

. The ironing-table a is made of a proper and 'ATENT OFFICE.

convenient height from the floor, so as to be comfortable to work upon; but when the sleeve-boards p and r are used, it will be seen that they would be too high from the floor to be comfortable to work upon. To avoid this difficulty I have the casters a u u a mounted upon hinged supports 1) Q2 Q7 c, hinged to the lower ends of the legs 0 c in a manner as shown in Figs. 3, 5, and 6. Fig. 5 represents the caster in the position when the board a is used, and Fig. 6 represents the caster as swung back around its hingepin to aposition as used when the operator works on the sleeveboardsp and 0". Thus it will be seen that, by folding up the casters, as shown in Fig. 6, the height of the board is lowered a distance about equal to the space between the sleeveboard 1) and ironing-board a.

When the casters are in the position as shown in Fig. 5 they may be held in place by means of a small pin, w, or its equivalent.

\Vhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is

1. The combination, with an ironin g-table, a

0 c, of the sleeve-boards p r, rests o k, and the bars h h, with the clamp l and its screw m n, for the purpose of being easily detached from the ordinary ironing-table, as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the sleeve-boards a" and their connecting parts, the table a, and

standards 0 c, of the hinged casters a 'v u v,

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, JOHN R. HEARD. 

